Baradhan

The Baradha are an Aboriginal Australian people of Central Queensland, whose lands of some 6,500 square kilometres ran along the Connors River from Killarney north to Nebo, between the coastal Koinjmal and the Barna to their west.

Their alternative name Toolginburra comes from their word for a hill, tulkun. Like other peoples of the Mackay district they were divided into two phratries, the Yangurru and the Wudhurru, classes that also ordered every part of the natural world. Their speech, the Baradha language, was a Maric tongue of the Pama-Nyungan family.

In 1770 James Cook sailed up this coast in Endeavour, but the Baradha country itself was not settled by Europeans until the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when police patrols and introduced diseases swept away much of its population.